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...official, referring to the Soviet national airline: "We want to do something that will affect the relations of Aeroflot to the rest of the world." One possibility: ground crews at international airports could refuse to clean Aeroflot cabins, stock its planes or refuel its empty tanks, effectively grounding the carrier outside of the Soviet Union...
...down a pair of attacking Libyan Su-22s. The rash, Soviet-supplied Libyan leader is a bête noire to the Administration: last February when Gaddafi was suspected of fomenting a coup against the pro-U.S. Sudanese regime, Washington sent four AWACS to neighboring Egypt and the carrier Nimitz to Libya's coast...
Last week another carrier, the Eisenhower, was patrolling off Libya because of Gaddafi, again with AWACS near by. The President ordered the Air Force to provide the state-of-the-art radar planes and escort fighters, as well as to fly in troops from Zaïre. An additional $15 million in emergency U.S. military aid is now arriving, all to fight off an attacking force made up of Libyans and Chadian rebels...
...strong U.S. naval presence off both Nicaraguan coasts is intended to apply still more pressure. The aircraft carrier Coral Sea is en route across the Atlantic. The Seventh Fleet carrier Ranger and its seven escort ships, which left the Pacific coast late last week, are due to be replaced soon by the battleship New Jersey. Before the Seventh Fleet ships left they displayed their firepower off the Nicaraguan shore. With Salvadoran President Alvaro Magaña aboard, the Ranger sent up 16 of its planes for roaring aerobatics, with bombing (500-lb. ordnance) and strafing practice, while near...
...destabilize the Sudan, Egypt's southern neighbor and ally. Gaddafi has sponsored at least two attempts to topple Sudanese President Gafaar Nimeiri. Last February the U.S. responded to suspicious Libyan air force movements near the Sudanese border by deploying AWACS planes to Egypt and the aircraft carrier Nimitz off the Egyptian coast. Relations between Gaddafi and Nimeiri are so bad that each has called for the death of the other...